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Sunday’s Sermon

Sunday’s message was part 4 in our current series What Jesus Says to the Church. The message is entitled “Tolerating the Intolerable” (Rev. 2:18-29) and be listened to or downloaded HERE.

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Advice for Anne

Novelist Anne Rice made headlines a few years ago by embracing the faith and religion of her childhood – Roman Catholicism. This was after years of wandering the earth as an atheist. But now she has publicly announced her decision…

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“Moralistic Therapeutic Deism”

What is the diet in our churches? It is something completely different from Christ and Him crucified. It’s me and me improved.” – Michael Horton from an interview with the Resurgence

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No Substitute for Substitution

Over at the Resurgence, Michael Horton explains the cruciality of the substitutionary atonement of Christ. When it comes to interpreting Christ’s saving work, everything turns on our view of God’s character and the seriousness of sin. God’s law is not…

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Reading Jonathan Edwards

Westminster Bookstore is having a great sale on a great new product – The Essential Edwards Collection (5 Vol.). Jonathan Edwards is not the easiest to read theologian. Okay, that’s an understatement. But Owen Strachan and Doug Sweeney have done…

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God’s Knowing and Man’s Knowing

In reading posts at Biologos I have been struck by the biblical scholars who seem to suggest that their apprehension of truth is of higher authority than what is revealed in God’s Word. In other words, when something in the…

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Biblical Manhood

Jonathan Leeman has posted a review of Richard Phillips newest book – The Masculine Mandate. Every once in a while, you read a book which seems so basic and solid you wonder why no one has already written it. Greg…

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Ted’s Dangerous Adventure

Just when you think Ted Haggard may have gone away, he reappears. This time he explains to the Wall Street Journal that he “over-repented” for his sins of employing a homosexual prostitute and use of methamphetamine. Biblically speaking, Haggard is…

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Teaching Our Children the Bible

Crossway has just released an impressive five volume survey of the entire Bible by Starr Meade. It is designed to be used by parents or teachers to train middle and high school young people to know the Scriptures. Starr Meade…